Six Little Sticks

Tiffany Stone is a children’s poet and picture book author. She has published four critically acclaimed poetry collections for kids, including Super Small: Miniature Marvels of the Natural World, also published by Greystone Kids. Tiffany lives in Maple Ridge, BC. She has shared her home with many pets, including two mama stick bugs and their little sticks.Ruth Hengeveld is an illustrator who lives in the Netherlands. In her world of watercolors, pencils, soft lines, and fresh colors, anything is possible. She creates her illustrations with a great love of detail, nature, and playfulness.

“A humorous seek-and-find counting book….Sharp-eyed young readers will enjoy searching the pictures for tiny, comic clues as to the whereabouts of the babies as they practice counting down from six to one and back up again to six and beyond."—Wall Street Journal"Simple rhyming lines build a wonderful organic cadence with one fewer baby stick each time we turn the page as they become skilled at blending into their twig- and sprig-filled environment. It’s pretty challenging to find all the babies (although their toys help), but this neat trick has the added benefit of slowing down the story and demonstrating how good actual stick bugs are at making themselves invisible.”—Youth Services Book Review"Eagle-eyed junior entomologists will go buggy for this one."—Kirkus Reviews“A delightful search-and-find picture book that introduces counting and subtraction…. unique and well-done and a good purchase for picture book collections.”—School Library Journal